Don't laugh at this before you try it for yourself,when I was a young lad and had the Pouters my good hen that won 32 tackles hit the wires and bust her crop open,took a great piece of skin off aswell couldn't stitch it so got a Durex and cut it right up the middle then cut it into a square stuck it on with super glue, six months later you would never have known that she had been injured,but she was never the same after that, she flew like a balloon.